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Robert W. Cushman

1800 - 1868 Person Name: R. W. Cushman Hymnal Number: d209 Author of "The quest of the karen" in The Baptist Harmony Cushman, Robert W. (Woolrich, Maine, April 10, 1800--April 7, 1868, Wakefield, Massachusetts). Baptist preacher and educator. Graduated Columbian College, Washington, D.C., 1825. Ordained as pastor of the Poughkeepsie, New York, Baptist Church in August, 1826. Established the Cushman Collegiate Institute, a school for young ladies, in Philadelphia in 1829. Pastor of Bowdoin Square Baptist Church, Boston, 1841-1847. Served as principal, Mount Vernon Ladies School, Boston, and taught at Newton Theological Institution. Three hymns by Dr. Cushman appeared in Baptist Harmony, 1834: Oh why, ye redeemed, should the breath of the tomb O thou whose wisdom gives a path Lo! on a mount that Burma rears The first of these was included in Cutting's Hymns for the Vestry, 1841, and Gillette's Hymns for Social Meetings, 1843. --Cecil Roper, DNAH Archives

T. W. Ustick

Publisher of "" in The Baptist Harmony

Campbell

Hymnal Number: d358 Author of "The glorious light of Zion is spreading" in The Baptist Harmony

A. T. Gorham

Hymnal Number: d177 Author of "I'll try to prove faithful" in The Baptist Harmony

W. Mitchell

Hymnal Number: d320 Author of "Servants of the living God" in The Baptist Harmony

Mrs. Saunders

Hymnal Number: d426 Author of "When first I found a pardon" in The Baptist Harmony

Miller

Hymnal Number: d406 Author of "Today if ye [you] will hear his voice" in The Baptist Harmony

John Blain

1795 - 1879 Hymnal Number: d239 Author of "My Christian friends in bonds of love, whose hearts" in The Baptist Harmony Blain, John. (Fishkill, New York, February 14, 1795--December 26, 1879, Mansfield, Massachusetts). Baptist. Studied at Fairfield (New York) and Middlebury (New York) academies. Pastored for nearly sixty years in : Auburn, New York City, York, and Syracuse, New York; Pawtucket and Central Falls, Rhode Island; New London, Connecticut; Charlestown and Mansfield, Massachusetts. He was also an evangelist and baptized about three thousand persons. He gave large sums to missions while living, and willed his property to home and foreign missions. The one hymn for which Blain is remembered is a parting hymn written in 1818, and published in the Original and Selected Reformation Hymns and Spiritual Songs (1829). Comprising twelve stanzas, the hymn begins: My Christian friends in bonds of love, Whose hearts in sweetest union prove; Your friendship's like a drawing band, Yet we must take the parting hand. A part of this hymn, altered by Rev. H.L. Hastings, later appeared in Songs of Pilgrimage (1886). Paul R. Powell (?), DNAH Archives

Joseph Steward

1753 - 1822 Person Name: J. Steward Hymnal Number: d251 Author of "My soul would fain indulge a hope" in The Baptist Harmony Steward, Joseph; preacher who became a portrait painter and silhouettist, active in Hartford, Conn.; b. 1753, d. 1822

William Mitchell

1793 - 1867 Hymnal Number: d200 Author of "Our sorrows and our sins were laid" in The Baptist Harmony Mitchell, William, born at Chester, Connecticut, Dec. 19, 1793, educated at Yale College. entered the Congregational Ministry in 1825, and d. at Corpus Christi, Texas, Aug. 1, 1867. To Pt. i. of Joshua Leavitt's Christian Lyre, 1830-1, he contributed “Servants of the Living God" (Christian Warfare); and to Pt. ii. "Jesus, Thy love shall we forget" (The Love of Christ). --John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology, New Supplement (1907)